Members of the ELSI Scholar Directory are scholars and trainees with an interest in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics and genomics. You may contact members to organize collaborative projects or working groups, share speaking opportunities, solicit expert commentary, obtain advice on policy or legislation, network, and arrange mentor/mentee relationships.
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Sara L. Ackerman, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
Institution: University of California, San Francisco
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Socio-cultural meanings of genomics
- Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Biomedicine
- ELSI Genomics
- community based participatory research
- implementation science

Clement A. Adebamowo, Sc.D., B.M., Ch.B. Honors
Associate Director, (Population Science), and Director For Global Health Cancer Research/Research Scientist
Institution: University of Maryland School of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Research, Nigeria
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Cancer
- Genomics
- Research Ethics

Laura M. Beskow, M.P.H, Ph.D.
Ann Geddes Stahlman Chair in Medical Ethics, Professor of Health Policy
Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human Research Protections
- Informed Consent
- Research Recruitment
- Biobanking
- Pragmatic Trials

Michael D. Bess, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor of History, Professor of Communication of Science and Technology, Professor of European Studies
Institution: Vanderbilt University
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Human bioenhancement technologies
- Ethics of advanced AI
- Global catastrophic risks
- Global democratic governance
- Collective military security

Cinnamon S. Bloss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Institution: University of California San Diego
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Direct-to-consumer genomics
- scale development
- Psychological assessment

Felicity K. Boardman, PhD
Professor of Social Science in Medicine & Genomics
Institution: University of Warwick
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- expanded carrier screening
- social stigma
- disability
- Personal Identity
- selective termination

Natasha Bonhomme
Founder
Institution: Expecting Health
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- family communication
- ELSI Issues in Large-scale Population Cohort Studies
- Newborn screening
- Communication
- prenatal testing

Jada L. Brooks, PhD, MSPH, RN, FAAN
Assistant Professor
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Community Engagement
- Racial Health Disparities

Carole H. Browner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Distinguished Research Professor, Center for Culture and Health, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior; the Department of Anthropology, the Department of Women’s Studies
Institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Social impact of decoding the human genome
- Prenatal Diagnosis
- Gender politics
- Genetic testing in Latin America
- Neurogenetic testing

Jean Cadigan, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Medicine
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact: [email protected]
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Research Ethics
- Clinical Ethics
- Biobanking
- Gene Editing